Like Johannes Brahms, Karl Lagerfeld and Angela Merkel I was born in Hamburg, in Northern Germany. As a student I came to France and have developed my career out of Paris. As a bi-cultural coach, I always try to bring the best of both cultures to my client.
Take advantage that today I once again have an address in Hamburg!

Encounters are my driver: meeting people, countries, environments. Journalism has thus naturally been the first stage of my career (my career history). An exciting decade exploring companies, professional sectors and their executives, for the business daily Les Echos then later for the weekly magazine Le Nouvel Economiste among others.

The birth of my daughter invited me to adapt a more sedentary lifestyle and I moved on to public relations, in IT services and later with an automotive supplier. Rich years of sharing management joys and trouble – in times of strong jolts, mergers, external growth, asset sales, change of CEO, change of operational processes.

My personal experience of market concentration and the economy’s financialization showed me the trouble they produce and caused me to decide to get trained as a coach in 2003. I aspire to accompany managers and teams, helping them to turn change into growth opportunities rather than suffering personal and organizational mess, to take control of events rather than putting up with them.

I find coaching to be a thrill and a source of wonder each day. Thanks to meeting clients in a genuine and profound relationship: their questioning and reinventing themselves leads the coach to do the same. Thanks to meeting colleagues in a transparent and true relationship: we co-lead sessions, we co-construct, we progress together, in trainings, in supervision Coaching is an activity where movement and freedom are consubstantial qualities.

What do clients say? My clients say, coaching is an extraordinary experience of self-development. Individual coaching brings steps towards one’s own self, an increase in energy, confidence, personal efficiency. Team coaching brings steps towards the other (and thus towards one’s self), an increase in fluidity, efficiency and pleasure in the cooperation.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. We are all meant to shine. As we let our own light shine, we give other people permission to do the same.

Marianne Williamson

If I had to name my coaching style I’d call it integrative. First of all, this refers to the awe and deep respect for the singular person I’m working with, with all of his/her dimensions – emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual – and who cannot be confined in any theory. Then ‘integrative’ refers to my well-organized toolbox where I will find the pragmatic and powerful response best adapted to the situation and the demands of the client.
The integrative path is my way of living with my personal refusal of closed systems and my preference for eclecticism, i.e. taking from different theories the best solutions if they are compatible rather than constructing a new theory.
It’s therefore with good reason that I decided to train with International Mozaïk and Trajectives, chosen for their openness, creativity, research projects – and their international network.

The coaching relationship has concrete safeguards thanks to it’s framework and ethics as defined by the Eleven Core Competencies and the Code of Ethics of the International Coach Federation (ICF) of which I’m a member and certified Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Confidentiality is one of the key foundations of this framework and the coaching relationship.

The framework allows for freedom, freedom to surprise, to shake up, to slow down, to move by my questioning, my feedback, an exercise involving the body, or a creativity game. Sometimes it’s good to explain the concepts behind the tools, whether they come from the systemic or the Gestalt approach, from Transactional Analysis or Non Violent Communication.
In systemic coaching, we notice that what happens in the coaching relationship, often represents what is happening elsewhere in the client’s life.  The coaching relationship acts as a metaphor or mirror for elsewhere.  This re-inforces working on 1° what’s happening here and now, 2° what concrete actions can you take and what is their impact.
Humanist is another key word to characterize my approach. I believe in my clients’ potential and your ability to develop and express this potential in order to bring your very own unique contribution to society.